On Oct 9, 2013, at 7:17 PM, Jeremie BOUSQUET <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Vincent,
I'm willing to help, as much as my bandwith allows :)
Great! See below
Le 9 oct. 2013 16:29, "Vincent Massol" <[email protected]> a écrit :
Hi developers/contributors,
We have quite a lot of applications on http://extensions.xwiki.org
However several haven't been updated for a very long time even though
XWiki has made progress.
I can think of 3 areas where help would be appreciated:
* Some apps have wiki pages in XWiki Syntax 1.0 version. Those need to be
upgraded to XWiki Syntax 2.1.
* Some apps don't register themselves in the Applications Panel. To change that just need to create a new page with the proper XObject. You can copy the Blog.ApplicationsPanelEntry page to this app's space and edit it. * Some apps don't automatically register translations and force the user to manually add documentation resource bundle in the Administration. There's now a better way which is to add an object of type XWiki.TranslationDocumentClass
Example of app that would need an update: http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/Polls+Application
So who's willing to help? :)
Note that the best strategy is to ensure that the application has a git repo on https://github.com/organizations/xwiki-contrib (there should be a Source button on the app page on extensions.xwiki.org too). If not, then let me know by answering this email and I'll create it for you and give you access so that you can make changes there. FYI the full process is documented at http://contrib.xwiki.org and I can help you with that.
To be clear, does that mean that you take care of creating the repo AND populating it with original sources, or that we should do it ? Shouldn't this be done by or with authorization from the original extension author ?
I can create the repo and if you can populate it then all the better :) You can ask the original author (always better) but if you don't change the license and the license allows it you don't really need to ask.
I would add that ideally extensions should be published to a maven repo (so others can depend on them), but maybe that's too much for the cleaning activity you propose... (and could be considered in a second step for a set of extensions)
Sure Thanks -Vincent